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| - | '''Painterly''' is a translation of the [[German language|German]] term ''malerisch'', one of the opposed categories popularized by Swiss [[art historian]] [[Heinrich Wölfflin]] (1864 - 1945) in order to help focus, enrich and standardize the terms being used by art historians of his time to characterize [[Work of art|works of art]]. The opposite character is '''[[linear]]''', plastic or formal linear design.<ref>For further clarification of the meaning of ''malerisch'' read ''Francis Bacon: Logic of Sensation'' by [[Gilles Deleuze]].</ref> | + | '''Painterly''' is a translation of the [[German language|German]] term ''malerisch'', one of the opposed categories popularized by Swiss [[art historian]] [[Heinrich Wölfflin]] (1864 - 1945) in order to help focus, enrich and standardize the terms being used by art historians of his time to characterize [[Work of art|works of art]]. The opposite character is '''[[linear]]''', plastic or formal linear design. For further clarification of the meaning of ''malerisch'' read ''Francis Bacon: Logic of Sensation'' by [[Gilles Deleuze]]. |
| An [[oil painting]] is "painterly" when there are visible brush strokes, and/or a rough [[impasto]] surface. This appearance might occur in oils, acrylics, watercolors, gouache, or any medium where a brush is used. ''Painterly'' characterizes the work of [[Pierre Bonnard]], [[Francis Bacon (painter)|Francis Bacon]], [[Gauguin]], [[Vincent Van Gogh]], [[Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn|Rembrandt]] or [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]]. In watercolor it might be represented by [[John Singer Sargent]]. ''Linear'' characterizes the work of [[Sandro Botticelli|Botticelli]], [[Michelangelo]] or [[Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres|Ingres]]. The [[Impressionism|Impressionists]] and the [[Abstract Expressionism|Abstract Expressionists]] tended strongly to be "painterly"; movements such as [[Pop Art]] or [[photo-realism]] emphasize [[flatness]]; [[Roy Liechtenstein]] attempted to make a comment on Abstract Expressionist painterliness when he created images of brush strokes, rendered with [[comic book]] style [[ink]]s and colors, complete with [[Benday dot]]s and other attempts at imitating commercial reproduction processes on the flat picture plane. What [[Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn|Rembrandt]] is to light, [[Delacroix]] is to color. Colorists tend to substitute relations of tonality for relations of value and render the form and shadow and light and time through pure relations of color. | An [[oil painting]] is "painterly" when there are visible brush strokes, and/or a rough [[impasto]] surface. This appearance might occur in oils, acrylics, watercolors, gouache, or any medium where a brush is used. ''Painterly'' characterizes the work of [[Pierre Bonnard]], [[Francis Bacon (painter)|Francis Bacon]], [[Gauguin]], [[Vincent Van Gogh]], [[Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn|Rembrandt]] or [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]]. In watercolor it might be represented by [[John Singer Sargent]]. ''Linear'' characterizes the work of [[Sandro Botticelli|Botticelli]], [[Michelangelo]] or [[Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres|Ingres]]. The [[Impressionism|Impressionists]] and the [[Abstract Expressionism|Abstract Expressionists]] tended strongly to be "painterly"; movements such as [[Pop Art]] or [[photo-realism]] emphasize [[flatness]]; [[Roy Liechtenstein]] attempted to make a comment on Abstract Expressionist painterliness when he created images of brush strokes, rendered with [[comic book]] style [[ink]]s and colors, complete with [[Benday dot]]s and other attempts at imitating commercial reproduction processes on the flat picture plane. What [[Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn|Rembrandt]] is to light, [[Delacroix]] is to color. Colorists tend to substitute relations of tonality for relations of value and render the form and shadow and light and time through pure relations of color. | ||
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Painterly is a translation of the German term malerisch, one of the opposed categories popularized by Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin (1864 - 1945) in order to help focus, enrich and standardize the terms being used by art historians of his time to characterize works of art. The opposite character is linear, plastic or formal linear design. For further clarification of the meaning of malerisch read Francis Bacon: Logic of Sensation by Gilles Deleuze.
An oil painting is "painterly" when there are visible brush strokes, and/or a rough impasto surface. This appearance might occur in oils, acrylics, watercolors, gouache, or any medium where a brush is used. Painterly characterizes the work of Pierre Bonnard, Francis Bacon, Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Rembrandt or Renoir. In watercolor it might be represented by John Singer Sargent. Linear characterizes the work of Botticelli, Michelangelo or Ingres. The Impressionists and the Abstract Expressionists tended strongly to be "painterly"; movements such as Pop Art or photo-realism emphasize flatness; Roy Liechtenstein attempted to make a comment on Abstract Expressionist painterliness when he created images of brush strokes, rendered with comic book style inks and colors, complete with Benday dots and other attempts at imitating commercial reproduction processes on the flat picture plane. What Rembrandt is to light, Delacroix is to color. Colorists tend to substitute relations of tonality for relations of value and render the form and shadow and light and time through pure relations of color.
"Painterly" art makes strong coloristic use of the many visual effects produced by paint on canvas such as chromatic progression, warm and cool tones, complementary and contrasting colors, broken tones, broad brushstrokes, impressionism, impasto and also of the artist's experience in painting. Jackson Pollack's "action paintings" are more "painterly" than Frank Stella's super-graphics.
Finally, "painterly" refers to paint, though some forms of sculpture make such use of surface texture and stroke that they could almost be called painterly (see Wood as a medium). The application of the term outside painting is a little self-conscious, and may not genuinely help the reader experience the character of Auguste Rodin's surfaces or Richard Strauss's flow of chromatic harmonies. Photography can also be described as painterly. [1] [May 2007]
